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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Can the Iphone Save Higher Education?
Abilene Christian University's Mobile Learning project seeks to evaluate the potential of personal digital devices and social networks to transform teaching and...
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Computer Scientists Empower Citizen Scientists
Binghamton University computer science professor Kenneth Chiu and his students have created a Web site that enables people to access large amounts of information...
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Initiative Grants Access to STEM Curriculum
A program to help enhance American Indian students' achievement in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been developed by the...
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The Sheer Delight of Tackling Shear Stress
NASA's commitment to provide aeronautical research opportunities to U.S. universities has led to another success, this time through an inventive student who earned...
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Biometric Identity Project in India Aims to Provide For Poor, End Corruption
In this country of 1.2 billion people, Inderjit Chaurasia could not prove his identity. When the migrant worker tried to open his first bank account in New Delhi...
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'supertaskers' Among Few Who Can Drive and Yak on Phone
A new study from University of Utah psychologists found a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask: Unlike 97.5 percent of those studied...
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Designer Lauded For Guidance in 'accessible' Web Sites
Medical communications expert Alicia Lane-Outlaw has been recognized in part for her expertise in making Web sites accessible to people with disabilities as well...
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Spies Among Us?
Governments' practice of electronic surveillance—and the growing use of warrantless wiretapping—has observers deeply concerned.
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Robots Gear Up For Disaster Response
After 15 years of research, robots for search and rescue may be nearing prime time.
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Data Streaming 2.0
In today's real-time Web, data streaming applications no longer have the luxury of making multiple passes over a recorded data set.
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Maryland and Arkansas Teams Win ORNL Global Venture Challenge
Graduate students from the University of Arkansas and the University of Maryland received first place at the 2010 Global Venture Challenge that was hosted at Oak...
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The Man Who Made a Copy of Himself
Roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, one of the world's most brilliant—and controversial—android makers, has built android copies of a child, a woman, and now, himself.
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Doing Business in China Getting Tougher For U.s. Companies
China's allure is stronger than ever. But a country already known for obstacles is becoming less welcoming to foreign businesses. Some American companies are reviewing...
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Improved Nanogenerators Enable Self-Powered Nanosensors
By combining a new generation of piezoelectric nanogenerators with two types of nanowire sensors, researchers have created what they believe are the first self-powered...
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Funding For Wwii Code-Breaking Centre Bletchley Park
The U.K. government has provided a 250,000-pound grant to repair Bletchley Park, where British mathematicians, including Alan Turing, worked to break Germany's...
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pc Students Try to Send a Spherical Robot to the Moon
Students at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya's Castelldefels School of Technology are working with Team FREDNET to place a small robot named PicoRover on...
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Imec Team Shows Wireless 'thought-to-Text' Cap
A prototype of a device that enables people with motor disabilities to communicate with just their thoughts was on display at the Medtech Conference in Stuttgart...
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Laser Security for the Internet
Jacob Scheuer at Tel Aviv University's School of Electrical Engineering has developed an information security system that acts as a type of key bearer.
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Html 5 Could Challenge Flash
The Adobe Flash plugin has maintained its status as one of the most common ways for developers to create complex interactive Web features, but experts point to...
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